Assembly Dems are in the money

Â Â Democratic candidates running for Assembly seats and the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee had a total of $13.9 million in the bank as of late yesterday, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group. Republicans, who are in the minority in the Assembly, had a total of $2.4 million.Â Â

Â Â Incumbents have the advantage over challengers, NYPIRG found, with $11.9 million in their bank accountsÂ compared to $555,000 for challengers. Quite a few Democrats donâ€™t have opponents for their Assembly seats.

Cara Matthews is a member of The Journal News' Tax Team. She has worked as an Albany correspondent and she covered Putnam County government and politics. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them.